American Experiment (473 page)

University of California,
396
,
542
,
653

at Berkeley,
394-5

University of Chicago,
291
,
409
,
560
,
562

University of Michigan,
407

University of Mississippi,
365

Updike, John,
619

upper classes,
50-1
,
669

FDR and,
42-5

war against labor,
45-51

women,
436
,
453
,
459

urbanization,
453

of Southern blacks,
315
,
385

Urban League,
371
,
387
,
571

Uruguay,
330

USA Today
,
612

US Chamber of Commerce,
71

United States Information Agency (USIA),
296

U.S. Steel Corporation,
56
,
99-100

Utley, Freda,
123

U-2 plane,
261-3
,
334
,
476

Valenti, Jack,
608

values (core, modal, instrumental),
598
,
682

Van Buren, Martin,
117
,
648

Vance, Cyrus,
412
,
522-3
,
524-5
,
528
,
539

Vandenberg, Arthur H.,
155
,
163
,
235
,
285

Van Devanter, Willis,
91
,
93
,
96

Van Dyke, Vernon,
539

Variety
magazine,
194

Venezuela,
330

Versailles Treaty,
150
,
151
,
157
,
253
,
632

veto power,
646
,
647

House, Senate over each other,
647
,
655

Vienna,
332-3
,
335
,
529

Viereck, Peter,
626

Vietcong,
342
,
484

Vietminh,
255

Vietnam,
401-6
,
474

French colonialism,
341-2

Geneva Accords of 1954,
342
,
405

see also
North Vietnam; South Vietnam

Vietnam War,
342-4
,
390-1
,
397
,
401-7
,
410
,
417-20
,
422-6
,
475-6
,
478-84
,
493-4
,
497
,
538
,
675

bombing,
403
,
405-6
,
410
,
412-13
,
418
,
422
,
475-6
,
479-80
,
483-4
,
527

casualties,
391

election issue: in 1968,
412-16
; in 1972,
460-1
,
479
,
481-2

genesis of,
342-4

Paris peace talks and cease-fire,
481-4

Tet offensive,
411
,
412

troop statistics,
343
,
390
,
410
,
418

Vietnamization,
417
,
419-20
,
422-4

withdrawal,
480-4

see also
anti-Vietnam War movement

Viguerie, Richard,
637
,
638
,
641

Village Voice
,
429
,
614

Vishinsky, Andrei,
206

Vladivostok summit (1974),
488
,
523

Voice of America,
523

Volcker, Paul,
562

Volstead Act,
25

Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA),
566

von Braun, Wernher,
579

Voorhis, Jerry,
468

voter registration drives,
661-2
,
670

South,
356
,
378-81
,
382-4

voter turnout, decline in,
646
,
661
,
670

voting rights:

for blacks,
357
,
366
,
371
,
378-84
; discrimination,
355
,
379-80
; legislation,
321-3
,
378
,
383
,
384
,
389

for women,
433
,
440
,
646-7

Voting Rights Act (1965),
383
,
384
,
389
,
397
,
651

wages,
669

autoworkers,
573

Carter restrictions,
559

Depression,
19
,
32
,
40
,
47
,
48
,
49-50

discrimination: racial,
189
; sex,
81
,
82
,
188

New Deal measures,
32
,
90
,
106
,
107

Nixon freeze,
556

union gains,
100
,
187-8

wartime increase,
184
,
187
,
648

Waggoner, Hyatt,
299

Wagner, Robert,
70
,
75
,
96
,
112

Wagner (National Labor Relations) Act (1935),
75
,
90
,
95-6
,
107
,
603

Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill,
191

Wald, Lillian,
122

Wallace, George C.,
367
,
369
,
370
,
383-4
,
415-16
,
460
,
637-8
,
644
,
656

Wallace, Henry,
23
,
65
,
73
,
102
,
114
,
118
,
208
,
234
,
277
,
337-8

presidential candidacy,
234-7
,
238
,
286

as Vice President,
164
,
203
,
234

Wall Street Journal, The
,
41
,
612
,
627

Walsh, David I.,
162
,
312

Walzer, Michael,
540
,
598

Ward, Benjamin,
565

Warhol, Andy,
621
,
623

war-making powers,
495

“War on Poverty,”
516
,
566-7
,
568
,
570-1

War Production Board (WPB),
185
,
186

War Refugee Board,
219

Warren, Karl,
322
,
506
,
652
,
654
,
667

as Governor,
191
,
604

Washington, Booker T.,
352
,
675

Washington, George,
153
,
218
,
337
,
507
,
593

Washington, D.C.:

Civil Rights Rally of 1963,
371-2

summit meetings: 1959, Khrushchev,
260-1
; 1973, Brezhnev,
485-6
,
488

Washington Naval Conference and Treaty (1921-22),
152
,
170

Washington
Post
,
12
,
465
,
500-1
,
612
,
614

Pentagon Papers
,
425-6

Watergate Affair,
498
,
499
,
510-14
,
651

cover-up of,
500-6
,
508
,
510
,
512

hush money,
501
,
502

sentences,
512-13

smoking gun,
508
,
509
,
511-12

tapes,
505-6
,
507-8
,
509
,
511
,
557

water quality control,
389
,
466

Watson, James,
544

Watson, Thomas J.,
71

Walls race riots,
397-8
,
554

Waxman, Chaim,
568

wealth, distribution of,
17
,
60
,
128
,
215
,
566
,
668-9

Coughlin and,
58-9

Huey Long on,
60
,
62

“wealth tax” of 1935,
76
,
77
,
78
,
128

Weatherman,
422

Weaver, Richard,
627

Weinberg, Jack,
394-5

Weinreb, Lloyd,
519

Weisberger, Bernard,
478

Welch, Joseph,
251
,
258

welfare programs, federal,
466
,
554
,
556
,
558
,
560-1
,
567
,
630-1
,
641

Fair Deal,
236

New Deal,
25
,
34
,
37
,
40
,
76
,
81
,
134
,
213-14
,
568
,
570
; 1937-39 recession,
104

War on Poverty,
566-7
,
568

Welles, Orson,
136
,
139

Welles, Sumner,
154

Wells, H. G.,
13
,
131

Welty, Eudora,
615

West, Nathanael,
605
,
608

West Bank,
486
,
525-6

Western Europe,
254
,
294-6
,
565

Marshall Plan aid,
233
,
265
,
295

US defense partnership,
265
,
488

West Germany,
233
,
238
,
476

economic competition by,
556

Westmoreland, General William,
406
,
411

Westwood, Jean,
458

Wheeler, Burton,
61-2
,
73
,
76
,
77
,
94
,
95

isolationism of,
154
,
169

Wheeler-Rayburn (Public Utility Holding Company) Act (1935),
76
,
214

White, Andrew D.,
611

White, Byron,
362

White, Ralph K.,
234

White, T. H.,
603

White, Theodore,
284
,
636

White, Walter,
113

White, William Allen,
20
,
122
,
614

White Citizens’ Councils,
351
,
354-5
,
365
,
367
,
379

white-collar crime,
514-16
,
517

Whitman, Walt,
6
,
142

Whyte, William H., Jr.,
280-1
,
599

Wicker, Tom,
520

Wiener, Norbert,
274-5

Wiesel, Elie,
635

Wiggins, Charles,
508

Wiley, George A.,
570

Wilford, John Noble,
584
,
585

Wilkins, Roy,
371
,
372
,
381
,
387

Will, George,
644

Williams, G. Mennen,
28
,
325

Williams, Hosea,
356

Williams, Tennessee,
277
,
297
,
300

Williamson, Kris,
451

Willis, Ellen,
430
,
444

Willkie, Wendell,
76
,
163-4
,
165
,
202
,
203
,
208
,
236
,
593

Wills, Garry,
466
,
604

Wilson, Charles E.,
236
,
575

Wilson, Edmund,
19

Wilson, James Q.,
516
,
518
,
648

Wilson, Woodrow,
5
,
23-4
,
41
,
71
,
72
,
75
,
87
,
117
,
127
,
218
,
312
,
600
,
632
,
646
,
657

idealism of,
152
,
217
,
465
,
522

internationalism of,
11
,
12
,
465

and 1918 congressional election,
190-1

and World War 1,
490

Wilson Administration,
92
,
152

Winfield, Dave,
610

Winner, Langdon,
552

Winthrop, Diana,
613

wiretapping, in Nixon administration,
499

Wisconsin, progressivism in,
68
,
108

Wolin, Sheldon,
396

women,
551
,
667

and New Deal,
120
,
122

in party politics,
458
,
648

support for FDR,
83

as wartime labor,
188
,
453

Women Against Daddy Warbucks,
421

Women: A Journal of Liberation
,
447

Women’s Bureau,
438

Women’s Equity Action League (WEAL),
439

Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (WITCH),
446

women’s issues and rights,
40
,
81
,
376
,
433-4
,
436-60
,
466
,
551
,
646